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cab

Meaning of “cab”

A dry measure.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
1 occurrence1 verse1 bookKJV PCE

First occurrence: 2 Kings 6:25

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The KJV occurrence

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2 Kings 6:25
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Kings 6:25 · retained source text

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and behold, they besieged it, vntill an asses head was solde for fourescore pieces of siluer, and the fourth part of a kab of doues doung for fiue pieces of siluer.

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Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

An oriental dry measure, being the sixth part of a seah or satum, and the eighteenth of an ephah; containing two pints and five sixths English and American corn measure.

volume 1, leaf 330, column 2 (entry starts at OCR line 53)